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Mastering Office 365 Administration

By : Thomas Carpe, Nikkia Carter, Alara Rogers
Book Image

Mastering Office 365 Administration

By: Thomas Carpe, Nikkia Carter, Alara Rogers

Overview of this book

In today's world, every organization aims to migrate to the cloud in order to become more efficient by making full use of the latest technologies. Office 365 is your one-stop solution to making your organization reliable, scalable, and fast. This book will start with an overview of Office 365 components, and help you learn how to use the administration portal, and perform basic administration. It then goes on to cover common management tasks, such as managing users, admin roles, groups, securing Office 365, and enforcing compliance. In the next set of chapters, you will learn about topics including managing Skype for Business Online, Yammer, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams. In the final section of the book, you will learn how to carry out reporting and monitor Office 365 service health. By the end of this book, you will be able to implement enterprise-level services with Office 365 based on your organization's needs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
10
Administering Yammer
Index

Alerts


The Alerts section is where you go to view and configure notifications that will be sent out to administrators to help ensure they're aware of various activities that can impact security.

A specific example of an alert is when an administrative user exercises their administrative privileges for Exchange, the system will notify everyone that their access level has been temporarily elevated.

Alerts dashboard

The Dashboard gives you at-a-glance information about recent alerts, details for recent alerts, and jumping off links to view, create, and edit alert settings:

Alert trends from the Alerts Dashboard

View alerts

If you follow the View all alerts link in the dashboard, as shown earlier, it will take you to the View alerts page. This will show you the same data that was available in the dashboard title—just more of it. On this page, you also have the ability to export or filter the data. Filters exist for Status, Policy, Contributing user, Time strange, Severity, and Category.

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